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2010-03-18T05:46:13Z

Pope Benedict XVI looks at a prelate during a general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Bavarian bishops pray for abuse victims

2010-03-18T11:01:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Bavarian bishops meet, pray for abuse victims, call for change in Roman Catholic Church</div><div><p>A prominent archbishop called Thursday for justice for sexual abuse victims in Germany's Roman Catholic Church, saying they need to feel they can finally speak openly about their suffering.</p><p>Reinhard Marx, the a...

Priests with love lives speak out against celibacy

2010-03-17T14:15:35Z

<div id="subtitle">French priests with love lives speak out against celibacy, as sex abuse scandals swirl</div><div><p>Leon Laclau shared his life, and often, his bed, with Marga over 20 years — all while serving as a Catholic priest in a town in the French Pyrenees.</p><p>His clerical leadership eventually expelled him, prompting protests from his flock and inspiring other priests and their partners arou...

Catholic church slams Mexico City's leftist mayor

2010-03-07T17:00:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Roman Catholic Church launches harsh attack against Mexico City's leftist mayor</div><div><p>Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has published its harshest criticism to date of leftist Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, acc...

Youngstown Shaken by Slaying

2010-02-05T04:45:43Z

An empty lot rests between two abandoned homes down the street from St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Youngstown, Ohio. The church neighborhood, once populated by those working in the steel mills that disappeared in the 1980s, now is pockmarked by empty lots and abandoned homes, some with the boa...

Pope urges priests to make 'astute' use of Internet

2010-02-22T16:04:55Z

<div><p>Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday urged priests to use the Internet "astutely" in a message for this year's World Communications Day.</p><p>"Make astute use of the unique possibilities offered by modern communications," the pope said.</p><p>The Christian message "can traver...

Haiti Earthquake Immigration

2010-01-21T16:00:59Z

Hermann Joellyn, 72, waits for his turn to fill out temporary protective status papers, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, at the Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church in the Little Haiti section of Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Copyright 2010 Pope Benedict XVI was headed Sunday for Rome's main synagogue for a much-anticipated visit after angering many Jews by moving his wartime predecessor Pius XII further on the road to sainthood.</p><p>A 500-strong press corps will record Benedict's third visit to a Jewish house of worship, which comes barely four w...

One in three newborns in Philippines 'unwanted': study

2010-02-22T20:20:59Z

<div><p>One in three newborns in the Philippines is unwanted or unplanned, the government said Thursday, as the country struggles with a population explosion and the Church's opposition to birth control. </p><p>The fertility rate of Filipino women stood at 3.3 children, even though four out of 10 said they preferred to have only two children, the National Statis...

One in three newborns in Philippines 'unwanted'

2010-02-22T20:31:35Z

<div><p>One in three newborns in the Philippines is unwanted or unplanned, the government said Thursday, as the country struggles with a population explosion and the Church's opposition to birth control.</p><p>The fertility rate of Filipino women stood at 3.3 children, even though four out of 10 said they preferred to have only two children, the National Statist...

Pope calls for action on climate change

2010-02-23T15:56:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Pope calls for urgent action to protect the environment in World Peace Day message</div><div><p>Pope Benedict XVI called for urgent action to protect the environment, saying Tuesday that climate change and natural catastrophes threaten the rights to life, food, health — and ultimately peace.</p><p>In his annual message on the

Rich nations must assume environmental duties: pope

2010-02-23T15:56:18Z

<div><p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles, Pope Benedict said on Tuesday.</p><p>The pope's call for more environmental ...

Irish Catholic chief, pope to discuss abuse report

2010-02-23T21:23:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Head of Irish Catholics to meet pope to after report finds bishops covered up priests' abuse</div><div><p>The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland says he will meet Pope Benedict XVI next week to discuss a devastating repor...

Pope in landmark meeting with artists in Sistine Chapel

2010-02-24T02:14:41Z

<div><p>Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday sought to boost ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the art world as he met with dozens of artists in the Vatican's illustrious Sistine Chapel.</p><p&am...

Vatican opens door to Anglicans

2010-02-24T07:53:24Z

<div><p>The Vatican eased the way Monday for Anglicans unhappy with the Church of England's ordination of female and homosexual clergy to convert to Catholicism.</p><p>The Roman Catholic Church unveiled a new juridical framework for the conversions i...

Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media

2010-02-24T08:42:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Vatican official says he would like Roman Catholic Church to have more access to Cuban media</div><div><p>A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a ...

Argentine Congress Debates Gay Marriage

2010-02-24T12:32:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Argentine lawmakers are considering a gay marriage bill</div><div><p> <p>Argentine lawmakers are considering a gay marriage bill, the AP reported.</p> <p>If approved, Argentina would become the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage and only the second country in the Americas, after Pope Benedict XVI's efforts to unify the Catholic Church and reach out to Christian traditionalists took a new step Monday with the start of talks between the Vatican and a group of breakaway Catholics that includes a H...

Pope ends Africa synod

2010-02-24T14:41:25Z

<div><p>Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called for the benefits of global development to be spread more evenly, as a Vatican synod of African bishops drew to a close.</p><p>Ending the three-week event with a mass, the head of the Roman Catholic Church sa...

Vatican aims to reintegrate traditionalists

2010-02-24T14:42:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Vatican seeks to reintegrate traditionalists after storm over Holocaust-denying bishop</div><div><p>The Vatican begins talks Monday to bring a group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics back under its wing, nine months after the pope created an uproar by rehabilitating one of their bishops despite his denial of the Holocaust.</p><p>A delegation fro...

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